I guess I'll be one of the few who's skeptical about the casting of Lupita Nyong'o. Unlike seemingly everyone else, I wasn't wowed by her performance in 12 Years a Slave; she wasn't necessarily bad, but I thought her performance in that film was overdramatic and too "Shakespearean". I don't know, her performance just seemed out of place.
And is it just me, or does every film released these days feature at least one cast member from Game of Thrones?